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Easy HTTP/2 Server with Node.js and Express.js
The modern Internet with its TCP/IP protocol started around 1975 which is astonishing 41 years ago. For the most part of its existence, we used HTTP and it’s successor HTTP/1.1 (version 1.1) to...
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3 Conferences in 4 Days: NodeSummit, ForwardJS and npmCamp 2016
Last week was very fruitful on conferences. Luckily, there were all in the Bay Area so I didn’t have to travel. I spoke at NodeSummit and ForwardJS, and attended npmCamp. At all of them, I met old...
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Optimize Your App with HTTP/2 Server Push Using Node and Express
HTTP/2 is the new standard of the web. It has many great features which will make the web faster and simplify the development. For example, no need to concatenate files thanks to multiplexing, or a...
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Learn HTTP/2 Server Push by Building Express Middleware
In the previous post, we learned how to perform HTTP/2 server push in a Node server. We also covered the benefits of server push there so to avoid duplication we won’t list them here. We used spdy for...
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Node.js in Containers Using Docker
Container technology is one of the best options for software development and deployment. It allows you to share some of the OS resources while encapsulating the code and other concerns. You can think...
View ArticleBeautiful Node APIs
This post is on how to build beautiful APIs in Node.js. Great, and what is an API? The definition says Application Programming Interface, but what does it mean? It could mean on of the few things...
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How Node Event Loop REALLY Works: Or Why Most of the Event Loop Diagrams are...
When Bert presented his keynote at Node Interactive Europe 2016 on Event Loop, he started by saying that most of event loops diagrams are WRONG. I’m guilty of using one of them in my talks. :) This is...
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Node Toolchain for Newbies: The Best Node Apps and Libraries to Increase...
I get this question very often: “What tools would you recommend for Node development?” Software engineers love to optimize and increase productivity instead of wasting their time. I bet you are one of...
View ArticleNode.js at Capital One: Node Foundation Enterprise Case Study
Node Foundation published an enterprise case study about Node.js usage at Capital One. The title “After Call For Innovation from C-Suite, Node.js Pops Up All Over Capital One” and you can download the...
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NodeFrameworks.com Got GitHub Stats
Now our hand-picked registry of Node.js frameworks (NodeFrameworks.com) has GitHub statistics right on the website, so you don’t have to navigate back and forth when making a decision! This is how it...
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Sails.js 101
Sails.js (GitHub) is a convention-over-configuration type of a framework. This means that it’s similar in philosophy to Ruby on Rails. Sails.js is a true MVC framework, unlike Express.js which relies...
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Express.js Security Tips
TL;DR This text is part of my new book Pro Express.js: Master Express.js—The Node.js Framework For Your Web Development [Apress, 2014]. Security is important, that’s why I decided to publish this...
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To Engineers Who Tried to Use Jade Template Engine and Can’t Get Started
When I started working at Storify as a Node.js Engineer. The tech stack was Express and Jade. I hate to admit it, but I struggled with Jade a lot! Before, I mostly worked with Underscore, and...
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How to Use Jade and Handlebars in Express.js
I hated Jade as many other Node.js developes do. But I changed 180 after I realized that it has tons of features. At Storify and DocuSign we used Jade for EVERYTHING. We used Jade even in the browser....
View ArticleExpressWorks Walkthrough: Node.js Web Framework [VIDEOS]
Have you ever wanted to learn basics of Node.js and the most popular Node.js web framework Express.js? If you are experienced web developer or software engineer who wants to learn Node.js and build...
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Node Interactive 2015
Last week, I presented my talk at the inaugural Node Interactive ’15, in Portland, Oregon. It’s probably the largest Node.js conference in the world! My talk was on Node.js at Capital One. You might...
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Full Stack JavaScript
My new book Full Stack JavaScript (my 4th traditionally-published book) comes with a series of screencast videos for better immersion in a wonderful and mesmerizing world of Node.js, Backbone and...
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Node Patterns: From Callbacks to Observer
UPDATE: Now also available as a video (taken at NodePDX 2016) on YouTube. This essay started as a presentation at the ConFoo Canada conference. Enjoy the slides ? at...
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You Don’t Know Node: Quick Intro to Core Features
This essay was inspired by the Kyle Simpson’s series of books, You Don’t Know JavaScript. They are a good start with JavaScript fundamentals. Node is mostly JavaScript except for a few differences...
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JSON is Not Cool Anymore: Implementing Protocol Buffers in Node.js
There’s a better alternative to the ubiquitous JSON as the communication protocol of the web. It’s Protocol Buffers (protobuf). In a nutshell, protobuf offers a more dense format (faster processing)...
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